Shortlisted Proposals

Short listing projects from a pool of 264 detailed, innovative and diverse proposals has been a tough challenge for the India DM Team.

Over the last 3 weeks, each proposal was reviewed by at least two independent experts active in the social impact ecosystem in India and around the world. Our warm thanks go out to all our assessors for their in-depth reviews and the time spent scoring, ranking and commenting on proposals.

Based on the assessments, 30 of the top ranked proposals will move on to the next round of the competition. The assessment was based on the selection criteria described in the FAQs section. The 30 shortlisted projects will present their proposals to an expert Jury in Jaipur on the 6th of April 2011. At this event, the jury will select the final 13 winners of the 2011 India DM, who will be awarded $50,000 each to scale their projects.

Shortlisted teams will receive emails, before 10th March 2011, with details on the required next steps prior to their final presentations, on 6 April 2011, to the expert Jury in Jaipur.

The 2011 India DM competition is the kick-off event for a long-term programme supported by the World Bank’s Development Marketplace in India. Over the next few years we are looking forward to engaging with a wide array of social enterprises, across India in a collaborative and meaningful way.

A hearty congratulations to the shortlisted teams – we look forward to meeting you in Jaipur in early April. And a warm thank you to all the organizations who have participated in the competition so far.

Thank you for your continued interest in the Development Marketplace programme in India. Please feel free to contact us at dm-india-support@ifc.org for further information.

Next Steps: Included below are the next steps that will be detailed further in emails to all shortlisted projects/ teams:

Detailed email to Shortlisted Projects: Before 10th March 2011

Preparatory Technical Assistance Sessions: 3rd – 5th April 2011

Jury presentations and announcement of winners: 6th April 2011

Panel Discussions and engagement with IFC and DM for 24 month support process : 7th April 2011

Case Studies

Rangsutra

Envisaged as a bridge between artisans and consumers, Rangsutra works with small producer groups based in remote villages and towns in around 9 locations across the Indian states of Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Assam. It strengthens economic security in vulnerable communities by empowering members to create top quality hand made products which are then sourced and marketed to urban consumers through leading retailers.

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We are looking at this money more as in investment in infrastructure development as well as human resource development. We believe that the results of this will be seen very soon.

Sumita Ghose, Managing Director, Rangsutra Crafts India Ltd.

We feel honoured, we are a young enterprise and being recognized by an institution like World Bank is a great feeling. We are pretty enthused to move ahead in a comparatively faster manner...we are looking forward to the coming 24 months when we are going to get various kind of inputs.

Devendra Shukla, Chief Operating Officer, Educate Girls

DM is the beginning...it definitely feels good. It has taken a lot of thought process as to how we take reliable lighting sources to Bihar...Winning DM matters a lot...the financial support will help us to build infrastructure, develop capacity of people to implement the program [of providing quality lighting to the poor] properly in Bihar.

Basically a start-up needs to use the grant for the costs of capacity building of community, mobilization etc. Then there is the technical, research and development cost for doing the innovation part. The third necessity is providing the market linkage to the producer groups. These are the 3 core things that social entrepreneurs [look for] and for these, funds are not available. This will be the greatest benefit of the DM.

Ravi Chandra, Managing Trustee, Bihar Development Trust

Through DM we have proposed to scale it up to different areas covering another 44,000 households where we can monitor the social security scheme. I am definitely thrilled and excited because this money will [make] us think in a different way, to upgrade our technology, our HR and streamlining our processes from a certain level to a different level. We need to build our capacity through DM.

Mansingh Durga Prasad Nayak, Programme Director, (WOSCA)

In the last 3 years we have trained and placed 10,000 people [in jobs]. In this World Bank sponsored project we are trying to train and place 10,000 people in Bihar alone.

Nishant Saxena, CEO Elements Akademia Pvt. Ltd.

As far as scale is concerned, we have understood that a lot of capacity building is required for that. Resourcing and networking [with] other agencies is also important.